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D4: Response On Representation And Community

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D4 Response on Representation and Community

After watching the movie in class on representation and media, Stuart Hall defined the word, ‘’representation as the way in which meaning is giving to the things depicted, through images on screen, words on pages which stands for what we are talking about.’’ He also elaborated more saying that meaning that is in giving is a very different kind of distortion, which actually means that our work on representation would be in measuring not gap between of what we think is the true meaning of an event rather how it is presented in media with lot of good work.
And such is presented in media studies as a form of representation. Also in the first introduction of the video, we were asked how media helps us represent our community? What kind of images of black people are we represented with? And who creates the stereotypical representation of black people? In order to answer these questions, one must first understand the meaning of media before answering the questions asked. Therefore the word ‘’Media’’ …show more content…

Castell made this statement because, he believed that the fundamental battle that is fought in society is basically the battle over the minds of people. Such the way people think determines the fate of norms and values which the society are constructed. And so the media itself has been the social where power is been decided (238). And so, from own my reading note understanding, in order for one to understand the power of representation by media, one needs to examine representation as well as its complexity. Representation can be related as symbol or signs we take for granted, such as post in the streets, like stop signs, non-smoking signs, and speed limit signs and so

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